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The True Democrat. RIS 1I' .\ I ' 1I "' NS ii ,ttic a; ,J u f flr 'it ri-li ! ratt I'eli ;t',";., ,. n 1. '.~i Inl` iii Sian tliier Ihe l ter ~ai br itr I it l11 o 1;J.10as it bitl I'1r-, i i (ili mattet Suhscription x'..50 Per sear in Advance. 1/OX. 'Tlh,' ,rood" ] pople along tl, r',al between Wilheln and IlincIme\ vill'. in tli. seventh and ei('1zhth1 wards of ills parish. are very anxious to s.'cure the estahlish Inent of ri, al free delivery of mnail along this rout'. But at the outse't, they are' confronted witl the obsta,:le of bad road'. and no< proper ,roision for It' i m-I )i,\ 'moi" ll emf . iad these facts. the iverfl(,rneilnt will noti goodul : i' are required as a sine qua nin to rural free deliv ery. They must be. The above mentioned section of country is plrobably the most cut-off in tl ue parish from da:ily communic:ltion with the wo:hld, hence it i:; a logical point at which the rural free delivery system may begin. Andl since no beginning can be made without good roads. We urLe upon tIhe Police Jury to t.ake up the question of good roads in earnest, and no better beginning caun be mlad than one which will introduce the bless Sings of it,. 1. D. into the parish. '1T'(o long has this question been trifled with under an inadequate system. 'I'oo long has it been left to unpaid, unwilling service. Too long has it been left to un scientific overseers and ignorant labor. A secret of civil engineer ing, drainage, which takes the careful study of trained minds to discover, is left for the most part to men, who make no pretense of knowing anything on the snb ject, beyond what ob.servation and experience, both negligently conned, hav e taught them. The Governor has intimated that lie int nds giving the p)eople the benefit of expert knowledge on this question of civil engineer ing, by sending out the traine(d men in the, state's service, but this work. of necessity will pro ceed slowly with an extent of sixty parishes to cover. The Police Jurors need not merely await this assistance in a recep tive splirit, but since tv..y are men of intelligence and energy should go to work for results at once. Awl if rural free dcliv ery, is readly wanted, produte the good rioads. TH): OOI'EI (/..SE. continues tihe cloicest news of the daily !ress. 'Thue tiking. of testimnion having been lconIC)lud ed, the sp.'eches of thile defense and of the proseCution lhav\e taken up tie greater I)art of tihe week. ('apt. Fitzhughi oplened for the state making a speech full of ar gum'llllnt and st'Oling withl illnvet tive. He denouncied ('oopeer as an embezzler and a railroad iob byist, and s;aid tlhat the killing of Ca'rmack was a deliberate a;ssas sination. lis spiecl seen'id to riu ke t mhe iost noticeable effect on th, j ury, \lwhile that of the young at torney for tlhe state, Gen. Garner, haiis arousedl the greatest interest in general. His1 cloquence and the vigor and succinctuess with which hle pre sented thli case comnmands :tdmini ration. \\'e wish all cif our readeIrs could read the verb:ti relports of all these slpeeches, or l)etter, that we had the flacili tites for giving thei out. Gen. 31:ceks for tile defense has gained, by, Ils speech less favorable com(inent. eslec:iallY outside of Nash;ville, by two re matrkable positions hie took with regardl to th"ecase. The one was in effect t!hat the unwritten law ed [)ublic I11m'n, ., ' thi t te }:' i' hiad 111 'itre( O s'' 1 W ," i i1('n w itlio.lt prol)el "... 1' .,xing wulner h<l said tlhat tllhe streets f oNfashville had before this "runi 1red( with tlll blood of ililme who i ii ii i. i i - pu b, liC. j ,i'i 't 5 1lii gist of is, statlement all rests ill the wrk "iiproperlry," alnd yet (;enll. M(t kls limself admnitted that the C'iarmak editorial:, did ni' t justify lite inurder1 . inllc dentally it show,; how hard this lawyer for the lefense was put to it ito tinl airguments. tle ihas nlit en(l(nea et'd himself to the news iinl'e llu('1 by his unfortunate m'tliart l ' fi ,' hi beconies ia 1;1l'( t Alask: and heli did not help lhis case ss rel V, for Oeven the ii, l nis)ll5,ae,. rmeading.; jayli. iust see that if iipublic ºili'l s nailt'. 0l(0 1 r'eplttii ols wri' not toiC'la 0( upo1 U I)l . th preiSl thalt Inis. i ;tI 11 ''ye more i ena1 l'ra)(' SstatOell It was, that nmade by (Gn. Meeks wi en he stdl, "You are ni ot trl'yin. coiillron thieves or i nlrl'derers now, gentlellienl; you arlie tr'yig mien who coome froei as tine stock as ever human flesh t as iiiade of--the best people of thie South." Thus he voices anll Sieh:. all to 1)prevalent, that birthl a rnd position can protect a mina fi.i(ll the 1)unishmlent of his crillnes: that aristocraiy I in - 111nine fromi answering ior ts Slmisdeeds. Such ideas conti nued through a long train of sears brought i bollt the fearful retri butions tof the French Revolu tion; it held up the head of Hen ry VIII of England in haughty i. iisolence and pride of power but it laid low upon the block the head of C(harles I. Even in re plublican America, wherever the Sfeeling has obtained, it has caus . ed many miscarriages of justice - for which future generations may t yet suffer. Law is plrfect only when justice is blindfolded. Gen. Meeks does no service to the Sprogress of humanity when he 0 advances such an outworn and t pernicious theory. It will not f appeal to the jury, whom we judge are indifferent to the claims of long descent. Nor will it ap n peal to "the best blood of the V South" which is "best" by clean living and high thought. IVII ) Tills AlI THY!.' SDr. Ibruns' letter, reproduced Sin anothei columi n from a daily i pllaer, incidentally conveys a t startling bit (if informlation, and Sthat is, that though the alssassins: ( in Tangiplahoa. who carrie'd th iir e daInabhl hatred into the murder y of unoffeoliding wimen, is still at . large, tlie Chief ,Ex+c utive of the e Stalte Iis oIt'eed ino reward itol y their i' apprehension for this foul t lliimldil'. -As we ,bserved last weei, it is e iot S1iirpiising, although I ardly coi enllllldiatory, It itht ieg ptess and 1)eO)l e ,of Tangipa i)ncla are not so active as would e d(esiral)le, e in this nii;tter. Their a l)athy can If )i unhl.e.sto id alt least. The por9 i pie ;ar' l l'ti: alyzed, ai'e inii i (I at - ed by an all-powerful fear, that e action 01) their lpart, wo(l d be n followed by an immediate and . dire vengeance. Thie local pi'oss Sis silent. It does not see its op l portunity, but is blinded by pru - dential Inintives. It is inglorious illIt ti'llO ti) average hul nami nit >t 1ut why sthould not thie oirdi Snai'y" ioutine, whenl mulirder has or been coilnlitted, be followed at t the State House? If the answer be, that no lreward offered would , bring results, it is no reason for i the stoppage, and is only another s plea for extraordinary methods d in ferreting the assassin, or as ,- sassins, and accomiplishing their i imnisliment. L As Dr. l'iuns suggests, the n junketings are over, let the ipow r ers that ie set the lnachinery toc i work which will remove from oiu_ fair state's escutcheon, the bloody e blot llhat Tangipahou puts on it. s Sn'el v thie wvlole state canUnot be 'y terrorized by a handful of mium - derers. unworthy to breath1 tie I free air of Louisiana and whose ,s souls are al; craven as their mnth W ods of vengeance. Tr It W. i h re t )le. is soob- l) f vious it it- uadvabltages for the l gen.ir,'l g, ui that it is amazing I to lhave an intelligent person ar gu(e arainllst it. It is do plainthat th'e nline spent at home has in o.r,asied twlcity fi(r benetiting tihe (mn1111 nity as many times as at it is spent It home. The person with an :ton of local pride will b buy at l1 ii'.,-. ,vein if the price be la a little in .xc,,ess )t, wha:t mnay he tl asked -,ls~,wllcre. Hlow else is tie l hol' 'wr ha' itt to live' a T'I'l hlo 1' il',rcliuat'z are of aI nc',ssity ,ublic-:sjl it'led to a de- d gree. Ti 'y are a: 'ked to con contribilut to evt.,. charity, to eve iy churchl 1' sc-hool enter prise, to I-;ery scihemie for priv- d ate ,r IIullic god anlId business poli'y in;a es the n respond more e or less ilerally, according to ii their (, isp5isition or means. But they resoll)nd. A tax is assessed a upon thoem and though they are S privileged to decide the amount, somelthing miust be paid. And yet all to: frequently, the per sons, who have benetited by this liberality send their orders to Pears, Sawbuck & Co. or somei such place, counting it as a priv- ( ilge to pay expressage and to for feit the non-examination of goods beforehand. Every one to his taste to be sure, but it does not say much for a man's judgment or home loyalty when lie prefers to get the same goods from a dis tance because of a slight differ ence in price. Not to be too sweel)ing in strictures upon away-from-home 1 buying it may be well to note t that there are circumstances, 1 which justify the mail order: 1st. Of course when the an ticle wanted cannot be procured e at home ill proper quality, or at Sall. - 2nd. When there is too great a difference in price. In these c days, a hundred per cent profit d is obsolete, and the buyer should t not be expected to pay it. e 3rd. When there is an absence of reciproc:ity between merchant I c and buyer, that is, when the port to the customer's business that he expects the customer to give him. To illustrate: the mer d chant, whose wife does not buy Sthe mnilliner's hats, cannot ex l pect the milliner to patronize d him. The merchant who has his Sprinting (lone away from home, ii or who fails to support the home 1- paper, hs no argument corming it foi a laci: of reciprocity there. e The Ilmni fact is however, that r thile seller, whether lprinter or el1 inerclaint, muiist keeip his ineth ods, and his stock upl to date to 1meet modern requir-ements in Sorder to ]keep trade at home. ;s()therwis,- it will pass like the It rushing winds, he knows not e, whither. (;J!EEKS BEARING (l FT's. t- A om, is now startedl to make t tl t lion. .las. L. Ransdell canidi hdate for .,overnor next time. It Id seems tu, proceed fironi Baton Rs Rouge, whichl in itself is a suspi cious circumlllstance. Mri. Rans u- dell's splendid record in Con is gress as representative from the a- Fourth District, certainly entitles hiit to )promotion when hIe wants ii- it, but it should prioceed along as the line of his personal achieve at ients. Of late he has been men ar tioned frequently as logically in Id line for the United States Sen r ate, and it is is there that his ad or mirers wish to see him some Is day. s. The l)resent boom seems to be ir insuired by the fact that some one is exceedingly anxious to e keep off all treslpassers fram the w- senatorship. Once governor, Mr. to Ransdell might chance upon the or same fate that retired the Hlon. ly N. C. Blanchard to private life, it. when hie had hoped to wear the be toga of a senator. An executive a-- oticeri must antagonize many, we vhere a lhgislative one need not. so We should counsel Mr. Ransdell ii- to beware of the Greeks bearing gifts. PI'lNHSl THE MUltrADERERIS. Dr. Henry Dickson Bruns, of New Orleans, always in the lead in what tends to the best in human thought and action, has written a stirring communica tion to the daily press on the Tangipahoa matter. He says most forcefully: "Now that Mardi Gras is over and Mr. Taft has passed from us into the Presidency, might it not - be permissible to ask what the law officers, the Executive and the people of Louisiana intend to do about the murder of the man and the two wonien who were not II long ago waylaid and shot to death in the neighboring parish (1 of Tangipahoa? Ii, "According to our latest infor- A mnation the chief murderer, in- pY dicted by the dying words of his to victim, was still at large and no D extraordinary efforts were being , made to capture him; the execu tive had offered no reward for his C apprehension in the name of the 1 State. Yet this was a deed that would have disgraced a commun ity of Sioux. A being who could take from the arms of its mother an infant, and laying it by the side of the road, return and shoot her to death with a shotgun at close range, is unspeakable. Even the language of Shake speare and Milton falls impo tent. Are our people lauding prosperity. rejoicing In wealth and aggrandizement, absorbed by business and the pursuit of pleasure, about to pass on, de manding no vengeance for the deep damnation of their taking The court in Scotland that gave the children in cross divorce suits to the father, instead of the moth er, illustrates the usual attitude to male and female virtue. How can a guilty father be more fitted for the care of the children than a guilty mother? True justice would have given them to neither. At Washington, Taft came in like a lion. Roosevelt went out like a lamb. Boston calls Dr. Edward Ev t erett Hale the "chaperon of the e Senate." Alice Notes. J. S. Griffin went to St. Fran cisville last Thursday. Miss Irene Ryder went to visit her parents last week. Mr. Garner Smith and family Sspent last Sunday with Mrs. R. Thomrns. Miss Maggie Smith has ac Scepted a position at the Asylum. Miss Sallie Fleming spent t Sunday at Mr. Steven Smith's. We are having cloudy weather this week, cloudy and warm. The trees are budding very Srapidly. Mrs. Mary C. Lee is spending e a few days with her sister, Mrs. t Andrew Morris. Mrs. John Newton and baby spent Sunday with her parents. SERVIA. e Wayside News. t Mrs. L. E. Beckham is at her n daughter's, Mrs. A. J. Cox, nurs . ing her son, Wilbur, and grand . son, Clarence Leon, who are Squite ill. e Mr and Mrs. J. A. Thorns visited Norwood Saturday. Misses Florence and Carrie Smith and Messrs Jack Gore and Palmer Smith visited Jack son on Sunday. Mrs. N. A. Palmer visited her Sbrother, L. S. Beckham, on Mon day. e The young men of the neigh borhood engaged 'in a rabbit e chase Saturday evening without Sguns. It was amusing to see to "Jack," the greyhound, pick up the rabbit. Farmers are busy planting ie corn, increasing the acreage . from fifty to seventy-five per cent. ne It was said investigations into ye the natural gas situation in va y, rious States would be made by t. local commercial exchanges be Allfore action would be taken on ig the ordinance now pending in New Orleans. THE SAFEST AND QUICKEST WAY Sg TRANSFER MONEY IS BY LONG DISTANCE TELEPHONE FOR RATES APPLY TO LOCAL MANAGER CUMBERLAND TELEPHONE & TELEGRAPH CO, INCORPORATED Improve Your Parks and G dns. Hinderer's Iron Works, 1112-1118 CAMP STREET, NEW ORLEANS LA IRON FENCES CHEAPER THAN WOOD. Iron Chairs. Tables, Settees. Flower Boxes, Hanging Pots, Arbors, Arvhes, Vases, Fountains and benches for Public Parks, Otfice' Railing, Roof ('resting, Stairways, Stable Fix tures, Hitching Posts, Carriage Steps, Bridge Plates, Ash Doors Ce.sspool Rings, Brakeshoes . :O Grate Bars Malleable and Gray Iron Castings, Prinking Fountains, Fence Mater.al. CEMETERY FENCES and tm. MEMORIAL CROSSES. a- o a" MONEY LOANED ON REAL ESTATE LONG TIME EASY PAYMENTIT RELIABLE REPRESENTATIVES WANITED The Jackson Loan & Trust Co 120 West Capitol St. JACKSON, Missimip SCIOOL OF BUSINESL Cow NEW ORLEANS, LA. Shoulibe gIwathebesttmhhgls YOUR sent Department, Comets aahk College Store a No arepresentatlons o sems. dents. Through the suceseefict 000 former studeants. Seals is recognased eyervwhure as au wake Practicalo. Ponalse -assae Ichool0o0. SOUI* 1 Pecan Planting. J. M. St. Paul, of Port Hudson has sold to the Southern Nut Nursury Company, of Kansas City, Mo., his Holloway place which will he laid out in ten-acre lots and planted in pecan trees at once. This company has options on several other adjoining places, but may not purchase any more till next fall. It owns several pecan groves betieen here and Shreveport and near Lafayette, also one at Ocean Springs, Miss., and wants about 10,000 acres in this section. This new industry here will help to solve the boll weevil problem, which has para lyzed the farming interests. The Holloway place contains about 600 acres and it will be planted about ifourteen trees to the acre. There is many a non-profitable piece of land that could be made valuable.property by conversion into a pecan grove. Notice. The annual meeting of the stockholders of The People's Bank of St. Francisville, La., for the purpose of electing eleven directors to serve for the ensuing year will be held at the office of the Bank on Wednesday after noon, April 7, 1909 at four o'clock. K. C. SMITH, Cashier. Notice. Visitors to God's Acre at Lo cust Grove plantation, will please in future spare tombs and shrub bery. Among the latter a cen tury plant bears the sign manual of parties, whose idle scribbling can only be effaced by pruning and disfiguring said plant, de signed for ornament, not as a register for visitors. Nannie Davis Smith. SEEDS, sý!sCI.L u.EIz, ýý INIbo 3udAI; O aIh soo o kms s1 emi iýrt . PrI Col ectlo' Lg ITN,' lipsY fo I If Yea Are Thlakg f Tthia L.R. R The Short Lii. Betue New Orleans, Bats hi Alexandria and Sde I Pllmai Broiler Bfllt Ca New Orleans ad Dalla Mi Shreveport and N. 1. & . LI Texas. Tickets on sale to all Alabama, Mississippi, G.u Florida, The Carolinas, Atd sas, Oklahoma, Texas, i California, East, North ail L. R. & N. trains use Nev leans Terminal Station, Conld New Orleans, and Union 8 I Shreveport. For further infornatil , on local ticket agent, or E.C.D. ManhI, GENERAL PASSIGQ Il Shreveport, L. Bank of West F Lated at St. Frarlsa U , l. 1 Reio8rt furnished wto thue Stste Banks by the abOWi M close of business 0on RFSOURCEM Demand loans ..... Loans secured by mortglae.. Other loans and discounts Overdrafts secured anDdutMld- Stocks and bonds Banking house. furniture and 1tW0 Due from Banks Cash items Silver. nickel and copper cola... Currency Gold Coin Total LIABrLTs Capital Surplus Undivided profits (net? Savings deposits Individual deposits Certitlcates of deposit Bills Payable Total State of Louisian . Parish of West Feliclian I. S. McC. IawrasO PrdJ Matthews. Cashier of do solemnly swear that lU* • is true. to the best of MY lief. Subscribed and WUON16 l1th day of Mar. I90P. Y Deputy Clerk and F3 I St. Francsville. W